If you want to increase your emotional intelligence, try approaching the problem backwards: Instead of trying to improve your emotional intelligence skills, strive to identify and eliminate the habits that are interfering with your natural emotional intelligence in the first place.

⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro

1:12 - 1. Criticizing Others
“Criticism of others is a form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

3:25 - 2. Worrying About the Future
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

5:31 - 3. Ruminating on the Past
“To think too much is a disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

7:33 - 4. Maintaining Unrealistic Expectations
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
― Robert Jordan

10:29 - All You Need to Know

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✍️ This was initially published as an article on Medium.com by Nick Wignall: https://medium.com/personal-growth/4-things-emotionally-intelligent-people-dont-do-24ea6ea53992

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